Prachatitz district

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The district of Prachatitz (Czech. Okres Prachatice ) belonged to the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate as a result of the Munich Agreement with the forced cession of the Sudetenland from 1939 to 1945 . The administrative seat of the district was the city of Prachatitz (Czech. Prachatice ).

history

The Munich Agreement of September 30, 1938 was signed by the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler , the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain , the French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier and the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini . The Czechoslovakia and the allied with it the Soviet Union were not invited to the conference. The agreement stipulated that Czechoslovakia had to cede the Sudetenland to the German Reich and vacate it within ten days. The invasion of the Wehrmacht began on October 1, 1938. The district was formed from the judicial districts of Prachatitz , Wallern and Winterberg .

The district of Prachatitz was attached to the state of Bavaria on March 25, 1939 as part of the reorganization of the administration of the Sudetenland, which was annexed to Germany by the Munich Agreement . It comprised:

On December 1, 1930, 39,072 people lived in the area, compared to 38,328 on May 17, 1939.

As early as 1942, the British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden , an opponent of Chamberlain's appeasement policy, declared that Germany had "deliberately destroyed" the agreement, which is why the United Kingdom no longer felt bound by its promises and His Majesty's government was free to settle future borders Let hand. A few weeks later, the French government-in-exile followed suit . The other allies also subsequently agreed.

After the end of the Second World War , the Prachatitz district was immediately reassigned to Czechoslovakia in May 1945 . As part of the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia , most of the German-speaking residents of the district were also expelled.

District administrators

1938–1939:?
1940–1945: marriage retention

cities and communes

literature

  • Wilhelm Volkert (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980. CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Lemberg : “Munich 1938” and the long-term consequences for the relationship between Czechs and Germans. In: Jörg K. Hoensch , Hans Lemberg (Ed.): Encounter and conflict. Spotlights on the relationship between Czechs, Slovaks and Germans 1815–1989 (= publications of the German-Czech and German-Slovak Historians Commission 12), Klartext, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-89861-002-0 , pp. 103–118, here p 115.